I made Flames of War yesterday. I don’t like the weapon design but I made it anyway just for the effects.
If redoing the whole weapon design is not possible, please just change or remove the big round disk near the handle because it does look pretty awful when stowed. It’s just too big.
I have to say, I don’t log in as religiously as I used to once I hit the Daily AP cap. I still log in often, but I’ve lost the motivation I used to have, or maybe it’s that it just doesn’t bother me as much to miss a day.
Now, I’ve pretty much given up on Achievement rewards. Sigh.
^This.
The daily AP is what kept me in playing everyday. I always looked forward to my Achievement Rewards. It motivated me to play a longer after doing the daily.
If you have Arcallion Digs [&BMMAAAA=] explored, there are friendly skritts near the waypoint. You just need to buy Sealed Package of Snowballs, two is enough. Hit those friendly skritts, no animation when they get hit but it will count as a daily.
I’d say discard the development of new legendary journey collection and just let the new legendary precursors drop in specific areas. No need to worry the resources on fixing the collection bugs anymore.
It’s been 5 months since HoT. I’m pretty sure you guys made a number of new legendary weapons by now and just sorting about the journey collections which I think the reason it took this long to release the new ones.
I’ll take daily fractal any day rather than doing the 4 events on specific map. Doing level 2 or 10 fractal is easy and fast, you can get a party full in an instant. Plus, the reward chest have a chance to get rare drop of ascended weapon and armor or even a gold fractal skin. No need to change.
I’m not an expert but someone told me having a normal internet speed doesn’t always translate to a normal latency/ping. When you have a high ping, it’s sometimes not noticeable when you’re just streaming and browsing BUT it’s very noticeable when playing online games.
Try to download the program PingPlotter. It will show trace routes as well as packet losses. Try to test the websites you usually visit and GW2. The results will tell you where the problem is when you compare them. If the issue is indeed your ISP, it will show packet losses in their IPs and use the results to convince them.
I’m making this post for the sole purpose of sharing what auric weapon choice reward for each class after completing the 8th storyline (City of Hope).
The weapons are awesome, so i’m planning to collect them by repeating the story on other class. So far, I tried Elementalist and Ranger. You can only choose 1 auric weapon from the 3 choices.
Here’s the weapon choices on my class:
Ranger = longbow, axe and torch
Elementalist = staff, scepter and focus
Anyone else want to share some information about the other classes? It will be appreciated.
I have experienced that the lag get’s worse the closer the primetime comes.
Starting off with normal ping (60ms) at around 12pm (CEST) then it’s getting worse until around 8pm (~200ms). That’s where the peak of lag is from my experience. Afer that it starts falling very slowly.
Anyone has same observations?
I noticed this as well. Our time differs though but this high latency issue as if it is being scheduled.
I live in SEA (GMT+8). My observation is I have a normal ping right after midnight hits and it seems to be normal for about 8-9 hours. The terrible lag returns in the afternoon and goes back to normal again after past midnight.
I have the issue as well. It’s been a month or more for me. I never had this kind of issue before. My location is in SEA.
Here’s my traceroute right now;
Tracing route to www.guildwars2.com [64.25.40.16]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.x
2 6 ms 19 ms 27 ms 10.x
3 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms 10.x
4 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 222.x
5 21 ms 23 ms 22 ms 120.x
6 166 ms 163 ms 164 ms 120.x
7 226 ms 226 ms 226 ms xe-10-2-0.edge2.Seattle3.Level3.net [4.59.234.37
]
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 249 ms 249 ms 261 ms 4.59.197.34
11 252 ms * 253 ms 64.25.32-9.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.9]
12 246 ms 245 ms * 64.25.32-26.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.26]
13 * 259 ms 251 ms 64.25.32-82.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.82]
14 249 ms 249 ms 249 ms 64.25.40-16.ncsoft.com [64.25.40.16]
I posted my trace route above when my game is unplayable.
But right at this moment I’m gonna post my trace route since I can play normally. Now, I find this weird since I still can’t connect to level 3 but my gameplay have no lag or whatsoever.
Tracing route to www.guildwars2.com [64.25.40.16]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 2 ms <1 ms 3 ms 192.x
2 8 ms 6 ms 7 ms 10.x
3 7 ms 6 ms 7 ms 10.x
4 6 ms 8 ms 16 ms 120.x
5 20 ms 20 ms 26 ms 120.x
6 171 ms 163 ms 165 ms 120.x
7 180 ms 196 ms 180 ms xe-10-2-0.edge2.Seattle3.Level3.net [4.5
]
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 207 ms 209 ms 206 ms 4.59.197.34
11 213 ms 213 ms 213 ms 64.25.32-9.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.9]
12 204 ms 205 ms 204 ms 64.25.32-26.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.26]
13 215 ms 217 ms 215 ms 64.25.32-82.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.82]
14 212 ms 219 ms 216 ms 64.25.40-16.ncsoft.com [64.25.40.16]
Trace complete.
I’m always getting this kind of result around this time 2:00 AM (GMT+8). But this only last for a few hours then goes back 250+ ping. This is confusing.
I’m not sure if or when these changes went “Live” but as of 2 days ago i have been suffering with latency issues which i believe is a Level 3 issue. However, i’m not entirely sure due to this.
Confirmation on when the change went live would help narrow it down.
Level 3 issue has been my problem for more than a month now. It seems my route can’t communicate to level 3 and I’m not getting responses for 2 hops.
As someone who live in SEA, I’m normally getting 200-230 ms which is basically playable for me. But right now, it’s ranging from 250 to 350+ (in-game option ping gives different range of 300 to 1k+) with constant lag spikes, delayed skills, people rubber-banding and occasional delayed chat. This happens almost throughout the day.
What I find weird is during a certain time, around 2:00 AM (GMT +8) my gameplay returns to normal and my traceroute result shows I’m still not connecting to level 3, but my latency is normal and the game is playable around that time. This only last for a few hours though then it goes back to constant high ping.
As a nontechnical person, I really find all these confusing.
I have the issue as well. It’s been a month or more for me. I never had this kind of issue before. My location is in SEA.
Here’s my traceroute right now;
Tracing route to www.guildwars2.com [64.25.40.16]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.x
2 6 ms 19 ms 27 ms 10.x
3 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms 10.x
4 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 222.x
5 21 ms 23 ms 22 ms 120.x
6 166 ms 163 ms 164 ms 120.x
7 226 ms 226 ms 226 ms xe-10-2-0.edge2.Seattle3.Level3.net [4.59.234.37
]
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 249 ms 249 ms 261 ms 4.59.197.34
11 252 ms * 253 ms 64.25.32-9.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.9]
12 246 ms 245 ms * 64.25.32-26.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.26]
13 * 259 ms 251 ms 64.25.32-82.ncsoft.com [64.25.32.82]
14 249 ms 249 ms 249 ms 64.25.40-16.ncsoft.com [64.25.40.16]
If there were any arguments I saw on that farming area, the main reason would be the griefers. Some farmers knew who these griefers are. They intentionally sabotage the farming.
I have yet to see farmers yelling at people completing their heart quest. Mostly, they were intrigued and asked about it.
My advice for you is to enjoy exploring the world. Don’t bother about your character’s gears just yet, just buy those cheapest blues/green gears as you level. Start doing dungeons and gearing up exotics/aesthetics when you’re level 80.
As a new player, go explore and appreciate all the beautiful scenery of every zone. It’s awesome design you know. Complete the zone you are in. Enjoy and don’t let others bother you. Play as you like it.
Visit wiki.guildwars2.com if you need infos. It’s all in there.
Actually that’s bad advice. He shouldn’t be spending any money on gear initially. Buy gear from karma/heart vendors. It’s more or less free if you consistently do hearts and events. Which he should because it’s the fastest way to level outside of zerging wvw maps or crafting, which he won’t be able to do yet.
He can buy those CHEAPEST blues/greens like I said. Those that worth a few silvers, not golds. AND He shouldn’t be wasting karma during leveling phase. Better save those karma so he can opt to use it to buy exotics from temple vendors when he reached level 80. He doesn’t need to worry about leveling. Roaming around a map and completing every heart/POI/vistas/events is enough for leveling while enjoying the world scenery.
My advice for you is to enjoy exploring the world. Don’t bother about your character’s gears just yet, just buy those cheapest blues/green gears as you level. Start doing dungeons and gearing up exotics/aesthetics when you’re level 80.
As a new player, go explore and appreciate all the beautiful scenery of every zone. It’s awesome design you know. Complete the zone you are in. Enjoy and don’t let others bother you. Play as you like it.
Visit wiki.guildwars2.com if you need infos. It’s all in there.
“grinding” is NOT a mandatory thing to do in this game. However if you want some goodies you will have to work for it, something people tend to call a “grind”.
^This is so true. You have to exert lots of effort, time and patience to have those aesthetics and stuffs, which have little effects to none in regards to your character’s abilities. I admit you really feel the “grind” when you get bored thinking you’re still far from achieving your goal or some activities being too repetitive.
Set one goal at a time. Set one major goal and after that, things will be easy for the your next goal. I did this when I was working with my legendary weapons and I never thought I would be owning 5 of them now (all precursors and materials were bought with gold and without real money/gems involved).
Someone told me when I asked about it in map chat that the remaining coat box can only be acquired after killing the vinewrath boss and looting the reward chest (and it’s RNG btw).
I’m completely dumbfounded by the lack of logic on these changes including the infamous current trait system. Grievances over the unnecessary degradation of the said systems are to be expected since nobody asked for these kind of changes. This wouldn’t be quite a problem if these changes were made 3-4 months after the release. I mean it’s been 2 years already and then a sudden change, that’s a scratch on the head. The community have been asking for different things now – a better endgame or an expansion. And yet, you failed to listen.
All these people defending this “new player experience” act as if the old system is confusing and broken. When I was new to this game, I didn’t have a single problem leveling as I was completely engross with my personal story, every zone’s landscape, zone completion and the skills I acquired.
Have you guys ever thought the time and resources wasted for these needless changes? Who knows, they could have invested those to create things what the community really wanted. And yet, they prefer to fix what isn’t broken.
I have to agree with this. The long dialogue is killing the fun doing the achievements. We already know all the conversations and stuffs during our first encounter with the story. Let us skip directly to the achievement part.
Or at least make the achievements have 3 or more chances before deactivating on failures so we don’t have to waste time logging off, running story again and waiting for NPCs to finish talking.
During the World Summit, the part where Taimi said “Phlunt. I hope he trips on his robes.”, just made me laugh irl. I was really anticipating that it would happen (I mean Phlunt really deserve it). It would have been pretty hilarious.
Same here. After the patch last Friday (6 days ago), I got this issue as well. I have a hard time logging into the game ever since, sometimes I got stuck at the log in part. I did the -repair and went ok but still can’t connect. Sometimes I can manage to get into the game but I get this error when I try to zone or change map. I’ve been doing WvW now since I can sometimes managed to zone there without getting the error. I’m getting this error a lot when exploring and zoning PvE maps.
We need help here, it’s been almost a week for me now.
The problem I had with error 5 still persist, it’s been 3 days now. Sometimes I can manage to log into the character selection and getting the error when trying to load into the game.
I have tried resetting both my PC and modem several times now but to no avail. I also tried the /clientport 80 but it didn’t work. I’m currently doing -repair, I hope this will fixed the problem.
I have the exact same connectivity problem as well. I have been trying to log into the game for more than an hour now. I manage to go up to character selection but I get those error codes when trying to load my selected character into the game.
I’m also on Verizon in the NYC area and am experiencing this issue.
Instead of setting up a VPN, try this workaround:
Edit C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts using notepad (run as administrator)
Add this line at the bottom:
174.35.56.164 assetcdn.101.arenanetworks.com
Save the file. If Notepad prompts you to save as a new file, you need to start over and run Notepad as administrator.
If you have the GW2 launcher already open, restart it. If this still doesn’t help, you may need to change the address above and try a different number (e.g. assetcdn.102.etc..).
You may want to remove this line later when (if?) they resolve the networking issue.
Good luck!
Ok, I’m trying to get this to work but I can’t run notepad as administrator. I am getting no prompt to run it as administrator. I do get a prompt to open up an empty notepad as one thought but not the file C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts HELP! D; working on windows 7
This worked like a charm! Kilam… Thank you!!!
Is this method applicable to any ISP? I’m also having connectivity issue. I can only log into the character selection, but I get disconnected while loading into the game.
If you’re satisfied on just having the skins, then unlock/equip Twilight and Sunrise, forge them to Eternity and sell to make or buy another legendary weapon. Having 3 legendary weapons (two are just skins but still legendary looks) and extra cash for the price of 2 is definitely worth it.
Frostfang for your Necromancer and Warrior
or Bolt for your Guardian and Warrior
or The Bifrost for your Necromancer and Guardian
or Howler for your Necromancer and Warrior
or The Flameseeker Prophecies for your Guardian and Warrior
or The Juggernaut for your Guardian and Warrior
or The Moot for your Guardian and Warrior
Decide on which weapon are you using the most on those classes.
Whether those weapons are common or not, if you like those skins, then go for it. Personally, I don’t care about the changeable stats on the original ones and what matters to me are the skins I like. So for me, it’s worth it.
OP, I did the same thing by unlocking/equipping both Sunrise and Twilight, forge and sell Eternity to buy another legendary weapon The Bifrost. I’m still satisfied with my decision and I like having 3 legendary weapons (2 are skins, just the legendary looks) and extra cash for a price of 2.
Also, binding Eternity would only give player B the Eternity skin. Not Sunrise and Twilight. I don’t know why you think it would?
Quoted from the blog post: “….you will unlock all of the skins in that direct line of progression. That means that if you made Twilight, you will have access to both the Twilight and Dusk skins across your entire account. If you’ve created the Dynamic Tempered Spinal Blades, you’ll unlock that skin and all previous Spinal Blade skins.”
If this logic applies, equipping Eternity would give you the following skins, Sunrise, Twilight, Dusk and Dawn.
How is it an exploit though?
You need to build them both in order to get Eternity (unless you buy it outright from the TP, and to be fair, how many does that?)
The “exploit” they are referring too is basically this…
> Authentic Sunrise – equip to unlock the skin
> Authentic Twilight – equip to unlock the skin
> Forge Sunrise and Twilight at MF to make Eternity – you can now sell the Eternity
> If the Eternity is sold, you’re getting almost all the gold you spent for both Sunrise and Twilight.
You still have the Sunrise and Twilight skin unlocked even without the authentic ones in your account. You can buy another legendary with the gold earned.
Personally, I like it this way since I have both legendary weapons and this is actually what I’m planning. But I think Anet will somehow make adjustments to make this impossible. ~cross fingers~
So far, I’m full of excitement on the previous blog regarding the changes this upcoming feature patch BUT this new world boss schedule and world state across the map are really a downside of this patch. The new world boss schedule is what I really hate the most.
